On Friday morning, the White House announced that it will pause new approvals for new liquified natural gas (LNG) export facilities. The decision has been framed across the board as a “victory for climate activists,” and a concession to a constituency Biden is eager to please on the campaign trail. That’s not wholly false: The climate movement did indeed push for today’s decision, and the White House explicitly cited the climate crisis and “calls of young people” in its statement about it. What’s... Читать дальше...
It appears that we’re all going to pretend to have a GOP primary a little longer. Eight days after his decisive win in the Iowa caucus winnowed the field to two, Donald Trump comfortably beat Nikki Haley in the New Hampshire primary. The former South Carolina governor is soldiering on, apparently on the grounds that hers was but a minor shellacking and not a campaign-killing blowout. But the end will arrive soon enough—perhaps in her home state next month.
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Judge Lewis Kaplan had just a few short words to share with the jury moments after they issued a whopping $83.3 million verdict against Donald Trump in the defamation case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.
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In the dusk and dust of Gaza’s ruin, the Israeli soldiers danced. “I’m coming to occupy Gaza/and beat Hezbollah,” they chanted, “I stick by one mitzvah/to wipe off the seed of Amalek.” It was December 7, two months after Hamas’s attack on Israeli civilians. The troops formed a circle and continued their song: “I left home behind me/won’t come back until victory/We know our slogan/there are no uninvolved civilians.” The first refrain of their charming tune called back to prime minister Benjamin... Читать дальше...
The outgoing chief of the National Rifle Association got a chance to revisit some of his more luxurious expenses in a Manhattan courtroom on Friday.
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Donald Trump owes the writer E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her after she revealed the former president sexually abused her in the mid-1990s, a jury determined on Friday.
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